back when iraq was fighting iran, two american companies provided hundreds of tons of thiodiglycol, ant precursor, including the company cardinal stabilizer, a specialty chemical firm from my hometown of charleston, south carolina. well, now i finally know the secret to my state's delicious barbecue -- a tangy mustard-gas sauce. so good you will claw your eyes out! (cheers and applause) you will slap your grandma! (laughter) and this wmd discovery is news to everyone because even "congress was only partly informed" these weapons existed, while "troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found." it was sort of a "don't ask don't tell" for the lgbt wmd community. (laughter) point is, the story proves once and for all that the war was completely necessary and justified. here to say his story doesn't say that is pulitzer prize winner from the "new york times," reporter c.j. chivers, "the secret casualties of iraq's abandoned questions." here's my number one question. proves we had wmds there in iraq. why didn't george bush brag about this